Cosmetics, Toiletries, Household Cleaning Products now may make up One Half of All Urban Air Pollution, Auto Exhaust Declining

Cosmetics, Toiletries, Household Cleaning Products now may make up One Half of All Urban Air Pollution, Auto Exhaust Declining

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February 16, 2018

Basically, women are sick with many hormone related diseases
because they are poisoning themselves with common household products that are
hormone disruptive. These products may
contain natural or synthetic chemicals that disrupt and compete with your hormones
and do NOT show up on the hormone test.

Recently, scientists have found that cosmetics, perfumes,
toiletries, paints and other common products found in the house are now
contributing a significant amount of pollution in urban areas even compared to vehicle
exhaust from cars and trucks. VOCs or
Volatile Organic Compounds are released from pesticides, herbicides, building
materials, perfumes, and hairsprays are largely unregulated. Scientific researcher Joost de Gouw writes
that these compounds evaporates almost completely as compared to fuel for
vehicles that burn up. Alastair Lewis, professor of atmospheric
chemistry at the University of York, estimates that a quarter to a third of all
pollutions is from VOCs. Researcher
McDonald shows that one half of all pollutants from fossil fuels now is made up
of these household products. Both indoor
and outdoor urban air was measured and found that before emissions from
vehicles used to be dominant, but now VOCs from household chemicals are becoming more dominant. Vehicle
exhaust is trending downward. However,
now more and more the problem is becoming dominated by household product VOCs.

A researcher King’s College London of air
pollution, David Green, stated, “Organic
aerosols, which are produced when these volatile chemicals react in the
atmosphere contribute significantly to UK PM2.5 concentrations as they do all
over the world. In London, where we measure these routinely, approximately a
third of PM2.5s can be attributed to organic aerosols which come from a range
of sources including vehicle emissions, wood burning and even cooking. This
paper highlights a previously poorly understood source which is currently
unregulated.”